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« On phony ex-leftists | Main | Look out for Bellow » Thursday, December 21, 2006An anti-trendy book listI love this end-of-the-year reading list about American politics -- and not because I endorse the specific choices (though they seem sound). First, John Judis, of the Brookings Institution and the New Republic, admits that whenever he's asked for his picks for "best books of the year" (which is often), he must decline. "I don't read enough current books to offer an educated opinion," he writes. (I often wonder who honestly does, aside from full-time book critics.) The list is the opposite of trendy -- how much cocktail-party mileage can you get out of "Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916," by Martin J. Sklar? -- and you get a good sense of one man's intellectual landmarks. Posted by Christopher Shea at 02:49 PM
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